• “I Did Not Know Then...” Two Autothematic Poems 

  Pasterski, Janusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The author discusses the autothematic motifs in the poems „Sitowie” by Julian Tuwim and „Przeciwne wiatry” by Tomasz Różycki. The author analyses both poems and compares the transformations of the autothematic motifs, ...
• Melancholics on the Vistula River 

  Piechota, Dariusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article discusses the theme of melancholy in Polish prose of the 21st century, using four contemporary novels – „Pokolenie Ikea” [The IKEA generation] (2012) by Piotr C., „Wszyscy jesteśmy hipsterami” [We are all ...
• “The Last One Turns the Light off”. Polish Prose after the Year 2000 in the Context of EU Migration 

  Nęcka, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  This article focuses on the emigration/migration issue depicted in Polish literature written after the year 2000. The examples discussed prove that we are dealing with two variants in the depiction of emigrants’ experience. ...
• Access Paths: On Popular Women’s Literature and Criticism 

  Nowacki, Dariusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  Referring to critical statements that have appeared during the last few years, the author discusses ways of commenting on popular literature penned by female authors. One may distinguish five types of comments, 1) Appropriation ...
• The Topos of Childhood in Modern Poetry (1939–1989) 

  Mielhorski, Robert (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The paper problematises the literary image of childhood in poetry in relation to external historical and socio-political events. The material analysed covers Polish poetry from 1939 – 1989 (a clearly distinguished segment ...
• Notes about Czerniawski 

  Kisiel, Marian (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article constitutes a collection of notes related to the lesser known and rarely commented works by an émigré writer – Adam Czerniawski: his poems translated into English, short texts of literary criticism, short novels ...
• Jan Lechoń’s and Kazimierz Wierzyński’s Letters (Some Comments Based on the Critical Edition) 

  Dorosz, Beata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  This paper presents the problems faced by an editor preparing a correspondence dialogue between Jan Lechoń and Kazimierz Wierzyński (237 letters, mainly handwritten, from the years 1941–1956) for a critical edition, such ...
• “This Emigrant Fate of His”: On Włodzimierz Odojewski’s Short Story Collection „…i poniosły konie" 

  Dutka, Elżbieta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  Włodzimierz Odojewski is one of the most famous émigré writers who still deals with the topic of emigration, even in his books published long after his both symbolic and real return to the homeland. Significant extension ...
• Vilnius’s "Comoedia" – Another Link in the History of the Avant-garde 

  Szawerna-Dyrszka, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The aim of the article is to discuss the magazine “Comoedia” dedicated to art and culture. From the start, “Comoedia” attracted contributions from eminent figures in letters and the arts. However, until now the monthly ...
• Loneliness over a Piece of Paper. Maria Dąbrowska as an Epistolographer 

  Głębicka, Ewa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article discusses Maria Dąbrowska’s vast correspondence, which complete, in a way, her „Dzienniki” [Journals] , constituting very valuable biographical material, so far published only in selected fragments. Among many ...
• The Oeuvre of Jan Alan Bardziński – a Dominican, Preacher and Translator 

  Rusnak, Radosław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article is devoted to little known and rarely appreciated late-Baroque Dominican Jan Alan Bardziński who was a keen preacher and translator of both secular and religious texts. Bardziński’s literary activity is strongly ...
• The Writings of Jakub Susza (Jacob Susha). A Page from the History of Uniate Literature in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th Century 

  Pawlak, Wiesław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article presents the writings of Jakub Susza (Jacob Susha, c. 1610– 1687), the Uniate bishop of Chełm 1652–1687. His most important works: the Latin biographies of Josaphat Kuntsevych (Cursus vitae et certamen martyrii ...
• Kresy (Polish Eastern Borderlands) in Polish Literature of 1918–2018. Significant Interpretative Perspectives 

  Uliasz, Stanisław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The paper offers a comprehensive, synthetic account of the discourse on the subject of the Polish Eastern Borderland over the course of the last hundred years. It analyses the ways in which the understanding of the notion ...
• Centenarian “Weird Fiction” from Providence in Contemporary Poland. Translational Models and the Reception of Short Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft – the Case Study of “Dagon” 

  Luboń, Arkadiusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article discusses the conventional models and translation techniques, which are most common among the Polish translators of the weird fiction by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The proposed classification of such models, ...
• A Creator’s Illness as a Source of Memory and Forgetting: Selected Examples 

  Darska, Bernadetta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  In the present article I examine autobiographical works in which writers reveal their illnesses. I am interested not so much in the description of a given ailment, but rather in the embroilment resulting from being ill and ...
• Homo Holocaustus, or Autobiographical Female Experience of the Holocaust 

  Żórawska-Janik, Natalia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The aim of this paper is to present the motif of the Shoah in female autobiographcial prose after the year 2000. The paper shows that, in recent years, more and more female authors in the second and third post-Holocaust ...
• The Problem of “Polishness” in the London Student Periodicals („Życie Akademickie" – „Kontynenty”) 

  Moczkodan, Rafał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  Theis article presents the views and opinions expressed in two London periodicals published in the 1950s and 1960s by Polish students living in exile, namely „Życie Akademickie” and „Kontynenty”, focusing on the problem ...
• The Image of the United States in the Published Correspondence of Czesław Miłosz Written Between 1945 and 1950 

  Kołodziejczyk, Ewa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article discusses the image of the United States depicted in Czesław Miłosz’s correspondence coming from the years 1945-1950. The author of the article refers to the circumstances that led the poet to taking up a job ...
• The Novel as Third Space in the Struggle for One’s Own Place: Witold Gombrowicz’s Hidden Polemic with German Literature in „Pornografia” 

  Gall, Alfred (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  This paper deals with Gombrowicz’s novel „Pornografia” which can be interpreted as a third space where different literary discourses and philosophical concepts are interwoven. In this respect two German authors deserve ...
• Contact and Conflict: Polish-Jewish Contact Zone 

  Prokop-Janiec, Eugenia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020)

  The article suggests using the category of the contact zone adopted from postcolonial studies in research on borderland, which - in turn - allows researchers to describe the phenomenon of the frontier. According to Pratt, ...

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